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Three types of mood are strongly related to some specific stage of sleep. Our friendly, aggressive, and
sleepy feelings all relate to Stage 2 sleep, which accounts for most of our total sleep hours. ⑻Our friendly
and sleepy feelings, but not our aggressive feelings, are affected as well by Stages 3 and 4, and by how long
it takes us to fall asleep.
account for 占 … 比例
译文:我们的友善、好斗、倦意都与占我们绝大部分睡眠时间的睡眠的第二阶段有关。
This means that ifyou get less sleep than normal -and people vary a great deal in how much sleep they
normally require -you awake more friendly, more aggressive, and less sleepy.
At this point, the doctors found themselves puzzled. They knew from their earlier work that sleep
determines if people feel happier. Yet when they studied the various sleep stages, they found no correlation
between sleep physiology and the unhappy mood. Clearly sleep made a difference, but that difference didn't
relate to how much time one spent in each of the various sleep stages.
The two researchers decided the key to whether we feel happy or unhappy after sleep must lie in
sleep's psychological component -our dreams . ⑼ So they began studying dream content -what dreamers
dreamed and who appeared in their dreams -to see how this affected mood.
"We feel happy or unhappy after sleep"这个句子是介词宾语从句的主语,是一个主语从句。
译文: 两个研究人员决定我们睡醒后是否高兴的关键在于我们睡觉时的心理组成成份--我们的
梦。
Instead of sleeping through the night, volunteers now were awakened four times while in REM sleep.
They were asked about such things as what their dreams were about; the sex, age, identity, and number of
the people in their dreams; and what each person in a dream was doing.
Interestingly, Kramer and Roth found that being awakened four times a night didn't make a difference
in the volunteers' morning mood patterns . But they did find that who appears in a dream has a far greater
influence on mood than what occurs in the dream. "Who affects all the moods." Kramer says, "but
primarily the unhappy mood."
Each of us, it turns out, has a special dream character,⑽ and if this type of character appears in our
dreams, we are happier when we awake. "For people in general, how unhappy you feel after sleep depends
on who is in the dream." Kramer says . "Who it is that makes you happier is different for you than for
me."⑾ For some it may be an older woman, for example; for others, a young man.
10.我们每个人,原来是都有一个特殊的梦的特征或梦中情人。
11.每个能使我们更高兴的人,因人而异。
Who appears in your dream isn't the only important thing. The more people who appear in you dreams
the happier you are on awakening. It's a case of the more the merrier.⑿ "The bad thing in a dream is to be
alone; you feel worse," Kramer explains. "You can relate this to wakening psychology, where being alone
leads to more unhappiness . There is something about interacting with people that produces happiness ."
12.情况是人越多就越高兴。
A number of researchers have examined the relationship of mood and performance. The doctors also
checked into this relationship, and they have found some interesting correlations.
"We found that the more friendly, more aggressive, more clear-thinking, less sleepy, and surprisingly,
the more unhappy you are, the better you perform. ⒀That last one -the unhappy - I can't explain," Kramer
says . Moreover, the level of a person's moods and the level of his or her performance rise and fall together
throughout the day.
Initially the two VA researchers worked only with men, because the dreams of men are far easier to
study. Men and women dream differently. Indeed, sex is the biggest factor in accounting for differences in